I don't know what there is about the guy (Schaub), but something's missing. I just get the feeling that until or unless Houston finds someone else at quarterback the Texans aren't going farther than an early exit from the playoffs.

And last time I checked Ed Reed didn't play quarterback.

Schaub just can't make the plays that, say, Joe Flacco did last year or Eli Manning did the year before that. Both were Super Bowl MVPs, and check the list, people: The last four Super Bowl MVPs have been quarterbacks. That's because they're the guys who make the difference; not safeties, and especially not 35-year-old safeties nearing the finish line.

Ed Reed was a difference maker once; he's not a difference maker now. Houston is about to find out.

one huge difference between Schaub and Flacco and Manning, this was Schaub's FIRST playoff appearance...

Go look at what Flacco and Eli did in their FIRST playoff appearance, I save you the trouble, they did squat. Oh and guess what, talking heads were saying the EXACT same thing about Flacco and Manning 3-4 years ago, that they couldn't get their team to the promise land.... hmmm....

You keep spewing your drivel about the Texans, we will keep believing. Oh and enjoy you last Super Bowl win for the next 7-10 years because your high-maintenance QB just gutted your team to put coin in his pocket...

You spend more time here than on your own board. You've spent 473 posts pushing your anti-Ed-Reed-to-another-team agenda. We get it. Go away. We also know Matt Schaubs limitations, waaaaayyyy better than you do. Leave our mediocre QB alone and go back to your overpayed but good QB.

Agreed.

Handswarmer, you've gone too far. Thanks for visiting, and even though you COULD be potentially correct in your assertions and statements, there's a level of dooshery that you've now accomplished.

We get it, your team is smart and our team is dumb. Personally, I hope your team goes 6-10 the next decade.

I had positive rep'd you a few weeks back. But you've turned into a bit of an asshat all of a sudden, particularly since the news that we were interested in Ed Reed began a few weeks ago. I think everyone makes the easy connection here.

I saw this post this morning and thought it was funny. Its like a girl trying to convince herself that the guy she broke up with is a loser now and she never really wanted him in the first place. I know I personally don't care to talk about my ex's but whatever helps you sleep at night girl.

The OP sounds like an ex-boyfriend that is bitter that his girlfriend broke up with him, and runs around running her name down.

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Originally Posted by Texn4life

I saw this post this morning and thought it was funny. Its like a girl trying to convince herself that the guy she broke up with is a loser now and she never really wanted him in the first place. I know I personally don't care to talk about my ex's but whatever helps you sleep at night girl.

If the offense maintains long sustaining drives and scores touchdowns, that makes the job of the defense easier.

The NFL has organized its rules to bring about high scoring games and protecting the QB, that is a fact. Therefore, any offense better perform well in order to limit the opportunities that an opposing marquee QB has in any game.

The main issue I saw regarding the games against the Patriots and the Packers was a poorly designed and conservative offensive game plan that relied on the defense to keep those games low scoring.

In my opinion, the Texans would get more wins with Kubiak being more creative and utilizing the pieces he has more effectively than expecting the defense to keep the scoring of games in the low teens.

Repped

This is why I've been an it's time to fix the offense guy. It also wouldn't hurt if Gary didn't go into turtle mode when his team has a lead in the 2nd half.

Handswarmer, you've gone too far. Thanks for visiting, and even though you COULD be potentially correct in your assertions and statements, there's a level of dooshery that you've now accomplished.

We get it, your team is smart and our team is dumb. Personally, I hope your team goes 6-10 the next decade.

I had positive rep'd you a few weeks back. But you've turned into a bit of an asshat all of a sudden, particularly since the news that we were interested in Ed Reed began a few weeks ago. I think everyone makes the easy connection here.

I could give 2 Shiites about him being here. Freedom of the inter web. But you WILL get called out when need be.

Reed is not gonna solve the Texans problems but he's gonna improve them.
Only a butt hurt fan would come complaining about his ex girlfriend. Lol

This same article could have been written the past two years about Flacco. Lol

"Teams" win in the playoffs. Teams also win Super Bowls. individual players take over games against lesser opponents but in the playoffs there are no lesser opponents really and so it becomes exclusively a contest to determine which team can overcome their opponents and the inherent adversity in the game. You can win a Super Bowl without a great QB, or without a running game, or without a great defense. You can win a Super Bowl without any of probably a dozen or more "pieces" as long as you have a team that does something very well and that comes together at that moment when it either must do so or fall apart.

Your chances are better with better talent but it really isn't about achieving perfection or having 22 Pro Bowlers starting for you. Talent isn't going to get all that much better for the Texans no matter who we go out and sign. We have talent and we are deep enough and been drafting talent long enough to demonstrate that the organization can find the players it needs. Ed Reed's contribution to this team will be hit or miss throughout the season. If he's still standing and can be mostly the Ed Reed we all want him to be come playoff time then that, along with what he brings to that "Learning to be a Pro" thing that Gary puts so much emphasis on will be everything we could ask. We'll try to draft a young Ed Reed either this year or in the next year or two but as good as Glover Quin was (and he was pretty darn good) he was never going to lead that secondary. The Texans secondary was talented but lacked a truly special player last season who could lead. Joseph, Jackson, Reed, and Manning are as good a secondary as you could ask for. There's really nothing to discuss about it. I'd stack those four up against any secondary in the league today.

Matt Schaub will never be an elite QB but he doesn't have to be. I'd like to see the Texans move on from the Schaub era but if it continues for a few more years the situation isn't hopeless. We're building an epic defense and restocking it every year. It's not like teams haven't been successful going that route.

Really> Healthy? That's about as an accurate statement as you saying the game was in Baltimore. Didn't know Reliant Stadium was this far north....

'The Ravens (5-2), meanwhile, missed star linebacker Ray Lewis, who was placed on injured reserve this week with a torn triceps.Terrell Suggs, last year's defensive player of the year, saw his first action since undergoing surgery on his right Achilles tendon last May. Suggs sacked Schaub in the first quarter and finished with three solo tackles.

Otherwise, Baltimore's defense seemed overmatched without Lewis and cornerback Lardarius Webb, who were placed on injured reserve this week. Safety Ed Reed, who acknowledged this week that he's been playing with a torn labrum in his right shoulder, left in the fourth quarter with a chest injury. Reed said he felt fine after the game."

Healthy.....

He was talking about the 2011 game, hence the IT WAS AT BALTIMORE part.

We can go over the history of the SB and you would see that it's far from the "normalcy" you think it's been.

Schaub's performance in the game against the Pats has a decent chance of winning a SB game. Many QBs who won the SB didn't make a name for himself until he won a SB.Many big-time QBs didn't play well. Some relied on the run game; some relied on the defense; some both.

I wasn't a huge fan of the Reed signing, other than the fact he seems like a great dude. Once the contract numbers leaked I felt a lot better. Either way, I can't wait to see the D on the field with him and other new additions with Watt, Cush, Smith, J-Jo, K-Jax and young Reed.

__________________Kubiak: "They’re battling their tail off."Translation: They suck.OB: "They played hard with great effort."Translation: They suck.